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You are more beautiful than music.

Your face is like a poem

And your eyes... heaven.

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Comic Strip Celebrity Deathmatch: Opus vs. Mike Doonesbury.

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2) For what album did Krusty get a gold record?

3) What was Krusty's Clown College before it became a college?

4) Homer and Marge have a deal - if her sisters stop coming over after six, he promises to stop doing what?

Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.

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You are the hot air balloon. You are the one floating among the clouds with the world below, details insignificant, astounding beauty enveloping you. I am the one reaching for you with my feet well grounded. And, as I reach, when I touch you... For just that second, I loose the ground and fly. And the flight is worth the agony of reaching.

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[red splotches]

I'm not positive, but I think it's Arabic for "www.wheresgeorge.com".

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2) Who accuses Homer of sexual harrassment?

3) Who are Springfield's local lion-tamers?

4) Who is the self-help guru who inspired the "Do What You Feel Festival"?

Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.

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Got nothing to post?

Going out of town, but can't find a guest blogger?

Wish you had something new on your blog every day, but don't want the hassle of daily posting?

No problem.

Word of the Day
Article of the Day
This day in history
Today's birthday
In the News
Quotation of the Day
Match Up
Hangman

All available - just need to slap the code in your template, and you'll give people something to do while they're waiting for you to post.

Or you can just ignore your readers and hope they'll go away, like I do.

[Hat tip to blogdaughter Michele of Letters From New York City for sending me the link]

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Blogdaughter Michele of Letters From New York City e-mailed me to point out yet another danger of using IE

Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in Internet Explorer to install malicious software from rigged Web sites, experts warned Tuesday.

The vulnerability lies in the way IE 6 handles certain graphics. Malicious software can be loaded, unbeknownst to the user, onto a vulnerable Windows PC when the user clicks on a malicious link on a Web site or an e-mail message, several security companies said.

[...]

Shady adult Web sites are among the first to exploit the IE vulnerability, Eric Sites, vice president of research and development at spyware specialist Sunbelt Software, wrote on a corporate blog. In one case, a malicious Web site used the exploit to install "epic loads of adware," according to Sunbelt.

Microsoft says they'll fix the problem during their next update on October 10th.

Or you can fix the problem yourself right now by switching to Firefox.

Your call.

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About 2 years ago, I posted this picture of me & some Navy buds getting stinking drunk at the Shark's Cove bar in Olongapo (Philippines).

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Turns out I'm not the only one with fond (if blurry) memories of the place. Reader Richard, who was a MM Nuke on the Truxton (CGN-35), e-mailed me a pic of him and HIS buds doing the same damn thing:

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Note the fishnet in the background of both pictures.

By the way, the short chick on the right wasn't a Nuke, she was a... um... "working girl".

Wonder how much her bar fine was?

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Wherever I am right now, I'd rather be standing behind you, kissing your neck.

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[Harpo's Lounge, 4210 Thomas, Memphis TN 38127, 901-357-8005]

It's kinda like Hooters, except instead of hot chicks in tank tops shoving their boobs in your face, they've got guys in curly red wigs & top hats honking bicycle horns at you.

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2) At Itchy & Scratchy Land, where can the adults go to get away from the kids?

3) Where did Marge want to visit instead of Itchy & Scratchy Land?

4) Whatever happened to Homer's co-worker, Mindy Simmons?

Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.

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Free e-book version of Matty O'Blackfive's "The Blog of War":

Simon & Schuster, to their credit (and having gone through the arduous book deal process with them, I can tell you that they are an amazing group of people) decided to put up a link to the PDF version of the eBook for Enlisted members to download for free. We decided to provide it on the honor system and not spend time authorizing people to download the PDF file.

This offer is only good until the end of October.

Use this link to download from Simon & Schuster, and pass it along to anyone who you think should see it.

Oh, and to clarify a point, Officers can get the book free, too.

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If I gave you flowers as often as I thought of you, the world would be covered in roses.

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[Who's Your Daddy?]

Some historians theorize that Lincoln wouldn't have been targeted for assassination if he hadn't tossed out that smug little line while accepting the South's surrender.

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2) While watching "Paint Your Wagon", Marge says she didn't know Lee Marvin could do what?

3) In "War of the Simpsons", what is the name of the giant catfish?

4) In Fleet-A-Pita speak, what is Tahini?

Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.

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Blogdaughter Tammi of Tammi's World ponders a bit on how blogging changes for you after you've met some of your readers:

I find myself holding back on what I write. I don't speak my mind as easily. [...] I don't always hit publish. I worry about what "people think". Some how, some where it became more about other people. Worryin' about how they saw me, how my feelings were being viewed. I actually worried about what people were saying about me.

I know the feeling. When I first started blogging, my posts were sort of an open letter, but I did have an "ideal reader" in mind. Someone who would just accept my words and not use them against me personally. A good, non-judgmental friend.

As I've met some bloggers in real life, the target of my "open letter" has become more concrete and less ideal. I know who's reading this, and I know that some things I write may touch sore spots.

It sometimes makes things a bit uncomfortable. And maybe I avoid harsh treatment of certain topics out of courtesy.

But I will say this: there have been times when I've thought "Should I post this? Is this too much?", yet every time I've hit "publish" on one of those, the reaction has been one of understanding - of "I've been there too".

It's scary while you're waiting for the comments to arrive, not knowing if someone will take you to task over what you've written, but you grow from pushing through that fear.

And you find out you're not alone.

My short advice on the topic is this. Write what you want. Then go ahead and imagine the possible objections you think certain readers might have to it. If you're willing to face those objections and you're willing to explain and/or justify what you said, go ahead & publish, then wait for the outraged responses.

You probably won't get them.

If you do, well, you're already prepared.

And if you explain your position calmly and rationally, you might even win some people over. It's happened to me before.

However, if things go horribly wrong and there's bickering and trolling, all is not lost. You still have friends to watch your back. As AlliCadem of Can I Have Some Whine With That Cheese? said in Tammi's comments "when you get an intruder, your blog family comes to the rescue".

Thank God for blog family...

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1 I've been reading your stuff for a long time... and I can't think of anything you've written that I've ever had any issue with on reading. For that matter I can't think of anything you've written that would insult anyone (other than Michael Moore - and we're all good with that *grin*). Does this mean you're holding back? ;-)

Posted by: Teresa at September 26, 2006 09:21 PM (o4pJS)

2 :-) Thanks faddah!

Posted by: Tammi at September 27, 2006 04:52 AM (3UQTn)

3 Teresa - Looks like I'll have to try harder to offend you. Maybe I should rant about how unimportant computer security is :-D

Posted by: Harvey at September 27, 2006 05:06 AM (L7a63)

4 The day I start not speaking my mind is the day I delete my blog. No matter what I say, people seem to think I'm not as big of an asshole as I do, so it's been working out OK for me so far

Posted by: Graumagus at September 27, 2006 06:25 AM (50gt2)

5 This concept is rather foreign to me. Then again, I hate people, so I'm not sure what this whole "care what other people think" thing is...

Posted by: Ogre at September 27, 2006 09:37 AM (oifEm)

6 Y'all are nuts. I write exactly what I feel and think. I long ago stopped worrying about offending people. But maybe that's just me.

Posted by: og at September 27, 2006 10:38 AM (N99bh)

7 Thanks for the linkie, Mr. Harvey. I'll be polite seeing that we're just *meeting*~

Posted by: allicadem at September 27, 2006 05:45 PM (SmA1V)

8 People read this tripe? Huh, who knew!

Posted by: Jake Jacobsen at September 27, 2006 09:37 PM (0XPi8)

9 I think it's scarier not to get any comments when you post something you "question". Leaves your mind to wander...

Posted by: Sissy at September 28, 2006 08:48 AM (afJvI)

10 Sissy - I know what you mean... I just picture people going "I'm keeping my mouth shut on this one" :-)

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I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

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[Do you believe in God?]

Hmmm... not sure... ask me again on a 50.

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2) What does Mayor Quimby declare the funnest day in the history of Springfield?

3) What is Mr. Burns' first name?

4) Mr. Burns ran for governor against who?

Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.

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